What is that pushy woman doing in a delegation where she has no proper place?
Michelle Muscat with her state-paid personal assistant Pamela Seychell, taking photographs of her husband at an open-air press conference.
Malta’s delegation to the Vatican for the canonisation of two dead popes will include no representative of the government. It will, however, include Mrs Muscat.
Simple ignorance can’t be used to excuse or justify this extreme, impertinent pushiness. If the prime minister and Mrs Muscat do not themselves know that the proper substitute for the prime minister is his deputy and not his wife, then there are advisers whose job it is to point this out.
If Joseph Muscat can’t be part of the delegation because he has matters more pressing which require his undivided attention, like sleeping in on a Saturday morning before going to the gym to lift weights and then having lunch on Sunday with his best friends Edward (the tourism minister) and Elena ta’ Bagollu (coming up close behind Mrs Muscat for the Pushy Crown of 2014), then he should dispatch Louis Grech, deputy prime minister, in his stead.
The reason the Opposition leader has dispatched Beppe Fenech Adami instead of him is not because there is no Mrs Busuttil, but because Fenech Adami is the deputy leader.
Even less impressively, President Merilweez Kulajru Romanov Bourbon Hapsburg of the House of St George Preca first announced that she would be representing Malta, and then said that she has since changed her mind, but did not say why.
The official published schedule of the President’s engagements listed her as leaving Malta on Saturday then returning on Sunday after the ceremony at the Vatican.
Marie Louise Coleiro has made much of the fact that her husband of six years, Edgar Preca (who looks like somebody who deserves to be canonised himself) is descended from St George Preca’s brother. Or was it St George Preca’s uncle? Now she is not so terribly keen on canonisations anymore, despite saying the rosary every day in bed with her husband (she saves the more interesting alternatives for other people’s husbands, or used to at any rate), objecting to divorce but then not objecting to same-sex marriage.
In her absence, the Maltese delegation will be led by the Speaker of the House, Anglu Farrugia.
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I wonder if it ever dawned on these people that not adhering to protocol actually insults their host.
Then again, they did choose George Vella as Foreign Minister, and he knows all about proper behaviour, doesn’t he?
George Vella is busy trying to decide whether to take a stand over the Ukrainian debacle, or just continue to sit pretty as an apathetic seat warmer with no opinion whatsoever.
Here’s what I mean: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100027064/europes-hawks-doves-and-a-lot-of-posturing-on-russia/
Hemm bżonn li nirsistu għal paci, hu. Nagħmlu mill-aħjar li nistgħu, e… L-Ewropa dejjem tirsisti – nisperaw li r-Russi jirsistu wkoll, e… Ma tridx xi naqa ingwent għal dak id-dieħes, hux. Bla ħlas ta, ghax sample.
Actually, this is what I mean http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/38143/government_welcomes_ukraine_preliminary_deal#.U1ZnrldB9VU
The Telegraph chart shows Malta at dead centre – no opinion.
Kurt Farrugia and Ramona Attard were having lunch today at Ta’ Xbiex Waterpolo Club and if I’m not mistaken she was reading this post to him from her tablet.
Bit out of the way, is it?
The only thing that kept me from taking their photo was the thought that I could end up like Norman Vella.
Joseph Muscat rants about being de bast liberal in Europe, then he acts as though he and his wife are medieval monarchs.
Per la serie; vai avanti tu, che a me vien da ridere.
Maybe the President and PM are anxious to avoid a ‘hasla papali’ after pushing for gay adoption.
What an impeccable, great sense of dressing – wow! And that pair of sculptured knees!
Have they been asked by the Holy See not to attend?
Or was the president afraid that in her first foray abroad, she would be scolded?
Marylouise Coleiro Preca is on record that hi ma thobbx ceremonji, though why she should have accepted the ceremony laden Presidential office escapes me.
The presence of the Speaker of the House in the delegation to the Vatican might also explain her unexplained and unjustified absence.
To answer your question, she is making sure she does the most out of getting herself pictured with important people or at historical events. She must have lots of silver frames to fill up.
The proper way for Mrs Muscat to go to this ceremony (if Mr Muscat doesn’t feel like it) was to pay her way up to Rome. And not bum it out of our pockets.
“Hello hi. Illum gejt jien minflok ir-ragel hi. Orrajt.”
Protocol? This is not about protocol; it’s about bumming yet another free holiday and living it up.
For the Muscats and their friends, Malta is one giant all-you-can-eat buffet table.